Since he has been betrayed by his own fandom, I thought of making a thread to explain why I think Kidd is better character than it appears for the casual reader.
First of all to understand why he is a good character, you have to understand Oda's writing which is quite easy but some still fail to do so.
So here's a few points on why Kidd is awesome.
1. There never was any build up for his character to be among the favourite in the PK title in the New World yet people think he was going to be Luffy's main rival, that's how good he was. And he managed to go that far despite all that. He is a random SN like Apoo (his true rival who is slightly stronger than him), Bege or Bonney, let's not forget that.
2. He is weak af post TS, yet he managed somehow (thanks to sheer luck) to obtain some road poneglyphs which is an enormous feat.
3. He had great character development in Wano. He arrived there completely defeated and his crew mentally fucked by Kaido and Orochi. At first he was acting like a moron and wanted to play solo, like when he left Udon with Killer, he was kinda sulking like a baby saying he will do things his own way. What happened? A second wake up call on the rooftop where he arrived with no new plan and witnessed again the gap between him and Kaido. That's when he acted like a more mature man and accepted he couldn't do shit to Kaido and went after BM. Later on when he understood that he wouldn't do shit to BM alone, he also accepted Law's help.
So at first he said he would do things his own way, but then his character progressed when he accepted that it wouldn't work and he started doing things the way others told him to. That's called character developement.
4. Feat wise, he is very impressive, he should be around YC3 or YC2 level which puts him among the strongest characters in the NW (easily top 50 or 60).
5. He had a nice ship, too bad it was destroyed.
So overall despite being just another SN, he achieved more than most of them in the NW, things he was never supposed to achieve but I suspect Oda took a liking to his character and gave him more panels and feats that he intended to at first.
Feel free to share your opinions and eventually had why you guys think Kidd was a great character
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